Brian E. Crim
@briancrim.bsky.social
History professor, Holocaust Studies, former intelligence analyst, cat lover, beleaguered department chair, fleeing existential despair, author of Our Germans, Planet Auschwitz and other stuff
For all my intelligence studies and "war on terror" friends, I hope you like this take on Homeland.
“All I See Is Damage” Homeland, the Covert Sphere, and the End of the War on Terror - Crim - The Journal of Popular Culture - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“All I See Is Damage” Homeland, the Covert Sphere, and the End of the War on Terror - Crim - The Journal of Popular Culture - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“All I See Is Damage” Homeland, the Covert Sphere, and the End of the War on Terror
Homeland is a chronicle of a nation traumatized by the war on terror at a time when it has grown weary of fighting it. Airing shortly after the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and the raid on Osama bin Lad...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
For all my intelligence studies and "war on terror" friends, I hope you like this take on Homeland.
“All I See Is Damage” Homeland, the Covert Sphere, and the End of the War on Terror - Crim - The Journal of Popular Culture - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“All I See Is Damage” Homeland, the Covert Sphere, and the End of the War on Terror - Crim - The Journal of Popular Culture - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
What is a "legitimate business need"? Is research into the past now completely verboten?
June 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
What is a "legitimate business need"? Is research into the past now completely verboten?
I'm attending my first SHAFR conference in DC this week. Whatever will they talk about to fill the time? Our roundtable reunites some of us who met at the USHMM last summer to workshop projects on the US military and the Holocaust. Hope to see some of you there.
June 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I'm attending my first SHAFR conference in DC this week. Whatever will they talk about to fill the time? Our roundtable reunites some of us who met at the USHMM last summer to workshop projects on the US military and the Holocaust. Hope to see some of you there.
I'm excited to announce my new position as the Cohen Chair for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College. I've admired the unique HGS program at Keene and the affiliate Cohen Institute for a long time. Let's collaborate!
June 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I'm excited to announce my new position as the Cohen Chair for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College. I've admired the unique HGS program at Keene and the affiliate Cohen Institute for a long time. Let's collaborate!
I'm excited to participate in this event about Ft. Hunt's WWII history, specifically the role German and Austrian Jewish refugees played in interrogating prominent POWs and Project Paperclip scientists.
librarycalendar.fairfaxcounty.gov/event/14294542
librarycalendar.fairfaxcounty.gov/event/14294542
Science and Espionage: Fort Hunt and Prince William Forest During the Second World War
The state of Virginia has played an important role in the history of the United States. It was the location of the first permanent English settlement in North America, the...
librarycalendar.fairfaxcounty.gov
June 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I'm excited to participate in this event about Ft. Hunt's WWII history, specifically the role German and Austrian Jewish refugees played in interrogating prominent POWs and Project Paperclip scientists.
librarycalendar.fairfaxcounty.gov/event/14294542
librarycalendar.fairfaxcounty.gov/event/14294542
Dude, read a book . . .
May 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Dude, read a book . . .
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New addition
Book: Spies, Culture, and Society: Coming in from the Cold by Simon Willmetts, Constant Hijzen (published 01-02-2026)
http://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Spies-Culture-and-Society
Book: Spies, Culture, and Society: Coming in from the Cold by Simon Willmetts, Constant Hijzen (published 01-02-2026)
http://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Spies-Culture-and-Society
Spies, Culture, and Society
press.georgetown.edu
May 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
New addition
Book: Spies, Culture, and Society: Coming in from the Cold by Simon Willmetts, Constant Hijzen (published 01-02-2026)
http://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Spies-Culture-and-Society
Book: Spies, Culture, and Society: Coming in from the Cold by Simon Willmetts, Constant Hijzen (published 01-02-2026)
http://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Spies-Culture-and-Society
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Cover reveal for People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust, forthcoming in four months with @uoftpress.bsky.social
Beautiful design by Filip Kraus; the faces correspond with six of the chapters told in the book.
Beautiful design by Filip Kraus; the faces correspond with six of the chapters told in the book.
May 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Cover reveal for People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust, forthcoming in four months with @uoftpress.bsky.social
Beautiful design by Filip Kraus; the faces correspond with six of the chapters told in the book.
Beautiful design by Filip Kraus; the faces correspond with six of the chapters told in the book.
I'm glad I helped with this piece written by a fellow historian.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
The true story of the secret program that brought Nazi scientists to the U.S.
After World War II, Operation Paperclip quietly recruited German scientists to work on its most advanced weapons and space programs—including some who had been active in the Third Reich.
www.nationalgeographic.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I'm glad I helped with this piece written by a fellow historian.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
This amazing resource is now digital and searchable. Great work by some dedicated historians.
muse.jhu.edu/encyclopedia...
muse.jhu.edu/encyclopedia...
Project MUSE - The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CAMPS AND GHETTOS
muse.jhu.edu
May 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This amazing resource is now digital and searchable. Great work by some dedicated historians.
muse.jhu.edu/encyclopedia...
muse.jhu.edu/encyclopedia...
McBride was my professor at JMU early in his career. He was why I wanted to be a historian. Good to know he's the same cantankerous, quality character guy I remember as an undergraduate.
“No matter what you have done before,” Professor William McBride wrote to Annapolis’s Superintendent Adm. Yvette Davids, “your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
How the U.S. Naval Academy Is Bending the Knee to Trump (Gift Article)
Even before the presidential election, the school began preparing for Donald Trump’s potential return to power. Now faculty members are resigning in protest.
www.nytimes.com
April 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
McBride was my professor at JMU early in his career. He was why I wanted to be a historian. Good to know he's the same cantankerous, quality character guy I remember as an undergraduate.
Ok German Studies folks, I hope I'll see many of you in DC in the Crystal City Palace this Fall after some years away. I got my acceptance today for:
"Hamburg is a guilty city." John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man, and Germany’s War on Terror
"Hamburg is a guilty city." John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man, and Germany’s War on Terror
April 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Ok German Studies folks, I hope I'll see many of you in DC in the Crystal City Palace this Fall after some years away. I got my acceptance today for:
"Hamburg is a guilty city." John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man, and Germany’s War on Terror
"Hamburg is a guilty city." John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man, and Germany’s War on Terror
Next week I'm speaking on the special role emigres played as interrogators and war crimes investigators during the occupation period. Many emigres returned to their hometowns, knew their captives, and learned about the fate of their families while "on the job."
www.lynchburg.edu/history-prof...
www.lynchburg.edu/history-prof...
History professor presents ‘Return to the Reich: German Jewish Emigres and the Holocaust, 1945-1949’ at local library
Dr. Brian Crim, history department chair and John Franklin East Distinguished Chair in the Humanities at the University of Lynchburg, will present a lecture on Wednesday, April 23, at Jones Memorial L...
www.lynchburg.edu
April 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Next week I'm speaking on the special role emigres played as interrogators and war crimes investigators during the occupation period. Many emigres returned to their hometowns, knew their captives, and learned about the fate of their families while "on the job."
www.lynchburg.edu/history-prof...
www.lynchburg.edu/history-prof...
Umm....what?
Trump: "I said to [the former hostages], was there any sign of love? Did Hamas show any signs of, like, help or liking you? Did they give you a piece of bread extra? Did they give you a meal on the side? Like what happened in Germany."
April 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Umm....what?
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My feed is a torrent of these horrific letters gutting a generation of Humanities scholarship. And the personal toll on people whose livelihoods depend on this funding often gets overlooked. What do you do with schedules made, hiring freezes everywhere? The cruelty was always the point.
“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration”
My NEH grant has been terminated
Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars
You can’t say history isn’t relevant
My NEH grant has been terminated
Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars
You can’t say history isn’t relevant
April 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
My feed is a torrent of these horrific letters gutting a generation of Humanities scholarship. And the personal toll on people whose livelihoods depend on this funding often gets overlooked. What do you do with schedules made, hiring freezes everywhere? The cruelty was always the point.
This is just so profoundly depressing.
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This is just so profoundly depressing.
Won't someone please think of the poor spies operating against the US? They're being made redundant by gross incompetence.
Signal chat “Houthi PC [Principals Committee] small group” to which Mike Waltz mistakenly added Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg “included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing” ahead of strikes that began March 15 www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Won't someone please think of the poor spies operating against the US? They're being made redundant by gross incompetence.
19 books, articles, chapters, even book reviews. I made $5,000 in royalties over two decades to become fodder for Skynet.
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
19 books, articles, chapters, even book reviews. I made $5,000 in royalties over two decades to become fodder for Skynet.
"We protected the strong against the weak, and we perfected the art of the public lie . . . And we scarcely paused to ask ourselves how much longer we could defend our society by these means and remain a society worth defending."
- George Smiley, The Secret Pilgrim (1990)
- George Smiley, The Secret Pilgrim (1990)
March 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
"We protected the strong against the weak, and we perfected the art of the public lie . . . And we scarcely paused to ask ourselves how much longer we could defend our society by these means and remain a society worth defending."
- George Smiley, The Secret Pilgrim (1990)
- George Smiley, The Secret Pilgrim (1990)
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These are amazing.
AFRICAN GAZE was an exhibition showcasing the weird and wonderful art form that is the Ghanaian movie poster. On Ghana’s Independence Day, here are some of the best...
1/25 - Mrs Doubtfire
1/25 - Mrs Doubtfire
March 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
These are amazing.
His master's voice . . .
February 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
His master's voice . . .
I'm excited for my first Society for Intelligence History Conference at the always amazing Spy Museum. It's hard to underestimate the influence John le Carré has on the culture of intelligence, real and imagined.
February 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I'm excited for my first Society for Intelligence History Conference at the always amazing Spy Museum. It's hard to underestimate the influence John le Carré has on the culture of intelligence, real and imagined.
I think about Sam Esmail's Leave the World Behind a lot recently. This is basically the plot.
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
theonion.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I think about Sam Esmail's Leave the World Behind a lot recently. This is basically the plot.